Reb Yehoshua the Shadlan

So is a very very famous way more famous for than it is for it tells the story of Ben's exchange with the interesting we know that Rabishua was one of the in the time of the destruction of of the second Bamedash. In fact lived during that very critical transitional period. The Gmorra says in the Rabishu said that I was a ley and I used to sing I used to sing Shir in the Bdash. We also know that Yeshua and Shas was one of the two people that smuggled Rab and Ben Zakai out of Yushim at the time of the story of Kabarans. So that can have an audience with the case of to try to save the Jewish people. We know that is from the most often mentioned he's the of he was as we mentioned from the of he was also a rebi of the great rabbi. So anyone that's ever learned Gamorra for an hour is familiar with the tan of of Rabbi Yeshua stating that what's not so well known but is really abundantly obvious from Shas is that in addition to Rabishu being one of the great Tanoim and one of the great Moy Rabishua had a very unique relationship with the government. Rab Yeshua was a very very politically connected person. He was very very very influential and he used that protects you to be there for the Jews during this very very critical and pivotal time just to bring out the point we learned together not so long ago this is a perut it's the over there says the told [laughter] I know that your god is compared to a a lion says and the case tells what's the big deal that he's compared to a lion our big war we have gladiators they fight lions for a living they're able TO BEAT THEM SO THAT'S the godless of that is are gladiators I think would BE ABLE TO FIGHT THE your god and be able to defeat him So told him no when the says that is compared to a lion doesn't mean the lion that you have in your amphitheater but rather it's like so I want to see the so he told him you sure he said yeah you're sure yeah he regretted seeing it but the bottom line is this is an exchange that kingom tells that happened between the queser of one do also the says I want to prepare a meal for your guide says it's not possible because when comes to eat a meal he comes with a huge entourage it's going to be impossible he says I don't care I want to and he told him what to do he told him to go to the yam and prepare a meal and they spent six months preparing the meal and all of a sudden wind came and it blew it away and And the next time they did it, the sea overflowed and he realized this was something that he wasn't able to do. But two exchanges between the why is it that Shabas food smells so good. So Yeshua told him because all theas that are preparing for Shabas and now they have a special spice that they put in their food and it's called shabas and that's why it smells so good. I also want only somebody that keeps shabas does this work for. But if somebody doesn't keep Shabas this is not going to work. Another this is the Gumar says the case's daughter once told it seems that wasn't so handsome and she was very takenback that Hashem would take such an incredible brain such and put it into a says I'm curious your father when he stores all his vintage wines, right? His wines that are hundreds of years old. Says, "Where does he keep all those wines? Does he not keep them in earn? What else? What do you mean you such of a wine? You should have it in wine and in gold and in silver uh barrels." She went home and she told her father. They went ahead and they did and everything spoiled. So they came back and they told uh what happened. So they told the case so what happened? So he said who's the one who gave you this brilliant idea was so the case says I want to speak to my says why did you tell this to my daughter? What you trying to spoil my wine? No. I just said the same thing. Your daughter couldn't understand why me an ugly vessel would have in it such an incredible. He said, "Well, I said and then why do you why does your father use ugly vessels to store his wine?" Either way, the garra says, "Does that mean that if somebody's handsome, he can't be good in learning?" So says, "No, stating that that handsome person, if he wasn't so good-look, he'd be even a big he would be better at learning." This is the in. But again, you have gumar after we just mentioned four just to have a little bit of a sampling where you find this concept. You find this idea where the great is having exchanges with the quesa. But the truth is, the truth is that use this relationship clearly to help the Jews. How do you know that? There was a time that the yidden needed a favor from some very important governness in Rome. She called and she was a a woman that says they said me who's a person that has clearance that would be able to get to this uh to get to this woman said I'm going to go now she was a soar goes and tells the story and the says you learn from there and but the bottom line is is that Rab Yeshua was the one that said I need a why is Rabb Yeshua going you learn the Gar I know it could have been Rabza for the same price no it couldn't have been because Rab Yeshua is the one that's very much affiliated he's the one connected and as a result this was something that he was able to do here's another that very clearly comes to life this is in the he once [snorts] went to a very large city in Rome they told There's a child that's incarcerated. He's very very handsome. He went and he stood at the door of the he said, "Right, who allowed this to happen that the Jews are in such a denigrated place?" responded. He said another that this child is going to be a one spoke shot from the brisker of what this means but either way I'm not leaving this place didn't LEAVE UNTIL he was able to do It did not take long until this person became a like swore was going to happen. And you want to know who it was? Drum rollish ben Alisha. It was the great Rabbi Ben Alisha. But it was Rabishu Kan that was the one that was able to go ahead and save Rabbi Ben Alisha. He's protected. Rabish banana had the ability to open doors that other people did not have the ability to open because of the close proximity he had the influence he had the respect that he had by the case of he's still not convinced there's [snorts] a bracious parishious gimmel as in Hrien the secular world he's known as Hrien the great But he told him the world. He gave him a response. This is also in Paris. How's that going to create man? Everyone knows the answer. Told him it's from the L of the out the idea and he went in and he gave him a response. So there's two exchanges in medish. There's more by the way, but here's two as a sampling where you find that adaris the hatrian himself meaning sometimes when you learn a gumar and you see the word the quesa doesn't always mean the quesa but you see rabish kan was able to get all the way into the oval office and he's talking to them and learning he has big slots with him and the mish having conversations feels philosophical and theological discussions bin kan was able to penetrate literally the highest branches of Rome I think this measures brings this point home even more than anything. This is a medish and this is in paral in the times of in the times there was the Romans came around and they said we're willing to build a basis witnessed mikdash he lobbied he used his influence to try to get the basikt to be rebuilt and in fact be made why is it being made? You know who else lived in the times lived lived there lived. a lot of big good live then but it was made and the med goes and tells a whole story how they were mamish holding they were working they were raising the money for it and then the whole thing the kin got involved by the way you don't even know if the kum are really the kin cuz all these kazals are so censored you know who's who right whenever you see men suduki ki go akumi you don't know what's what but the bottom line is the kim ostensibly are the ones that got involved and they derailed it. But the point is has this relationship with the that he's using not for personal benefit. He's using it, right? That's his interest over here. And you see he used it there were different times with and he used it for the the prize of all prizes and that is to get the Romans to actually sign an edict. We're willing. This is a part of Jewish history that people don't know that we're willing to go along and re allow you to rebuild the base because of the whole thing got derailed. Just to bring the point home even farther was by theist that was debating him and the way they were debating each other was within. So he shows him he showed him some uh form of sign language some that suggested that is a nation that their god has already turned away from responded back again with some sort of rem even though maybe he seems far but there's a stretched out hand that's very much on top of us some of the kids of the case is watching this and you know he is uh an innocent bystander. He has no clue what's flying. So he turns to he tells him what did he show you? So he told him he said yeah I'm curious if the what did you show? He said and what did respond I don't know they said a person who doesn't know how to speak who doesn't understand we've spoken many times that the said that the z used to always writeer everything that the goyan wrote was and he used to say because when you stand in front of the king you have to speak, he would say there's a tremendous in but the bottom line is the bottom line is they took out this guy and they ended up killing him. But here's the postcript to the story when passed away said Carson. So what's going to be with Dapy Carson? Who's going to know how to be m of the happy person? So he told them gives another version of what happened. But when passed away or when he was getting old and he was coming close to passing away told what's going to be after you leave this world who's going to defend us who's going to stand up for us. So he told them to get you have nothing to worry about and IF THERE'S NO TO FIGHT IT so then if it's going to be their big is also going to pass away we don't have to worry about it was always going to survive but used his influence his debating skills even on such a level that there was there was such a concern Carson who's going to be the one that's going to defend us for the Carson and says this is the beer and another and this is the literally where the brings talks about what happened when Yeshua passed away was what does it What's going to be with the had incredible incredible influence. He had incredible incredible influence. And therefore you find that he's always conversing together with the queser again. You know when you go through these gimmar you see them one at a time and because you see them one at a time so you can't properly appreciate the puzzle and you can't properly appreciate the bign or should we say the pile of these kaz this is literally literally a fraction of what's out there. But whether it's just to name a few will you find Yeshua has some power. He has some influence literally he's of the where he's sitting literally with them and he's using that influence. He's using that influence to save during times that this was very very critical. I just want to conclude this with a few tiny just to bring out this point maybe. The first is I saw in from this is in it's page he says that says that and then there was a 19th that was instituted it's the and the says when exactly was that instituted by the way everyone agrees is not it's instituted in so when the were inn that's when they instituted this he's talking the name of the it was something that was instituted in yavn so just to read a few tiny excerpts Because after there were people that were being they were me making up stories they were getting up publicly and they were saying bull about the yidd and things that were 100% not true. And it got to a point, it got to a point that they didn't even know what to do anymore. What's the said he said, "Let's go ahead and we'll be A WE'RE GONNA PLAY WITH THE CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?" THAT'S THE LEVEL it got to now. We're going to say after WE'RE GOING TO ALTER the because it got to such a level. He quotes from. Just think about this. [laughter] The thing was OF HEARTS, THE THING THAT IS BOTHERING PEOPLE THE MOST. DIDN'T EVEN MENTION WHICH one answer they omitted. So they decided it doesn't make any sense, right? You read these you just have to put it on not two times speed. I'm like you have to slow it down.5 speed to take in right and he feels like the thing that he has on his mind you know he didn't which word to tie it into the main thing had was was not being represented in the every not just that say all the every single year would go ahead and would say this and that's how we ended up with the 19th but says that's the history that's so says in this piece the shin He says go through the gar and you're going to see in all the different gar and all the different gar who's featured so prominently in uh in these gumaras is always talking to the case of and in so many of the gar he's talking literally to hatri himself and he's trying to be there and come up with some form of some some some form of and you see he's trying to get so much done he said it's with this Indian it's this because Kanan is coming to to save the day at such a critical time. So again, it it puts all these conversations that is having with the into a context that it's happening at a TIME WHERE THE BIGGEST that says facing was the biggest that was facing the Jews. That's why that which every was before and wasn't being represented by the they said let's go tweet the let's throw it in. AND WHO IS THE LEADER? WHO IS THE one that's representing more than anybody else in this Indian? It's none other. It's none other than the great. You know, you learn like this having an exchange about a how many years it took for this uh to have a baby. You don't properly appreciate uh what's going on. Then we go through the gumaras, the gumaras that we mentioned. So then it, you know, it brings it out a little bit more. But then when you have an appreciation of Jewish history, you learn we spoke about that in so much detail in the beginning of right we had to speak about it on the day side but either way you go through and you appreciate the context of the times. It's something that you understand even more. We've spoken so much about Rebelzar over the years. Rebelzar's uh balpa rebar's was a yid whose name was Rabb Yeshua and just like rebel has his legacy has his story Rabbishua has has his story and really the legacy of Rabbi Yeshua if you know you know is not just that he's one of the greatest tanom of all time but the legacy of Rabbiu is even more than that the legacy of Rabbishua is he's an askin and his area of Askconos is an area that's lit literally challenging and it's something that is risking the entire union itself to to a point that understood they have to be in a new so that that Indian is going to be represented mameish and the person that is leading that charge the man on the scene is none other than the great Rabishua that's a big part of the rest of the story of the legacy of Rabishua We're just getting started. This raid is part one. The next stop which will be after Yontiff. We're going to uh go through the second half of the story of Rab Yeshua and we're going to come back to talk a little bit more about this in a Rab Yeshua part two as it relates to not just Rishu the Tana Rabu the manag Yeshua the Rab Yeshua the Mats the Rab Yeshua who led Clayrol in a successful way during that very very critical time.